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Linguistics Meets Linux: A Review of Morphix-NLP

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the natural-linux-processing dept.

Emre Sevinc writes "Zhang Le, a Chinese scientist working on Natural Language Processing has decided to pack the most important language analysis and processing applications into a single bootable CD: Morphix-NLP. More than 640 MB of NLP specific software is included and there's still a lot of place on the CD which uses a compressed filesystem for bringing us the best of both worlds."

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  1. Ironic.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    All this language processing packed onto a single CD yet /. can't run a spellchecker... :)

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    1. Re:Ironic.. by 0x12d3 · · Score: 1, Funny

      And there's still a lot of place on the CD which uses a compressed filesystem for bringing us the best of both worlds."

      Maybe Slashdot is out of place on their servers.

  2. Noooo by lakeland · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was in the process of downloading this already. Damn you slashdot!

  3. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This means that GCC will have to be expanded to be expanded to support all human languages as well as programming languages...

    1. Re:Great... by lakeland · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, I saw someone working on something like parsing english as a programming language, try a Google for 'controlled english' sometime. The general idea is that management may not be able to write the specifications, but they can read them and tell you it isn't what they're really after _before_ you code the thing.

  4. So this means by YoungBonzi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maxis will have The Sims actually talking, instead of looking "special".

  5. But? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    But can it translate Perl code?

  6. Re:Good Chinese Compression by MoThugz · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want to play the typical stereotype... please at least get it right.

    It's the Japanese who has problems pronouncing L's... and the Chinese have problems pronouncing R's.

    The Westerners on the other hand, can pronounce almost anything, but will never ever get facts right :)

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  7. eckcha isa outa by CPUgrind · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ia oundfa aa anguagela ita antca igurefa outa!

  8. actualy by DrLZRDMN · · Score: 2, Funny

    no states have laws like that, this summer Texas ditched theres, they were the last to do so
    stiff sodomy laws? theres a joke in there somewhere...

  9. Slashborging by PurpleBob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. That's the first slashborging ("All Slashdotters should have the same opinions! Be consistent, dammit!") post I've seen in a long time.

    Even though they're stupid as hell, I was beginning to miss them.

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  10. and there's still a lot of place on the CD by frovingslosh · · Score: 1, Funny
    and there's still a lot of place on the CD

    OK, I get that it's a Chinese scientist working on this, but it's about language. Should the Slashdot article really have been written in Chlinglish?

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  11. Where oh where? by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where are the "All Your Base" trolls when it's actually relevant?

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